We Don’t Have To Like It

Created
Thu, 07/11/2024 - 08:30
Updated
Thu, 07/11/2024 - 08:30
Kara Swisher is one of the most astute observers and chroniclers of the tech revolution and politics. Her experience makes her particularly valuable at this moment because she knows all the tech bros who are now going to be in the inner circle of the highest office in the land. She wrote this today on threads: I got some kind of 24 hour bug and fell asleep early last night with a headache & slight fever and woke feeling better but to these truly heinous results. Obviously, a shock, given the blatantly misogyny, homophobia/anti trans, racist & anti-immigrant messaging. But unhappiness with the economy & an ennui with the general US direction prevailed. @profgalloway & I were wrong to believe in the kinder nature of Americans. Some short observations: 1. We still don’t have to like it at all. 2. The other side will not be magnanimous in victory at all. Too many of them are the people you think they are, so no need to try to reach across the aisle & hope for the best unless you want to. (I hear their caterwauling, but not me!) 3. This is the red wave we were all dreading, just a few years later. It’s not clear yet what the mandate is — my guess is that it is economic and immigration issues rather than the truly bent ideas — but it is a mandate nonetheless, given how widespread it is. 4. You may be tired & heartbroken, but that does…